Wessex E-Book

Charles G. Harper

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Beschreibung

PREFACE This is a modest, gossipy and allusive sketch of a delightful part of England, designed rather to arouse the interest and the curiosity of those not already acquainted with what I will call the “Middle West” than to fully satisfy it. If in this connection you choose to regard the author of these pages as a commercial traveller in the interest of Wessex, displaying samples of the picturesque wares the West of England can offer the tourist, it will entirely fit the humour in which they were penned. To aid the medium of words is added a feast of colour in the accompanying selected views, which show the lovely golden russet interior of Sherborne Abbey, the misty rich blue haze of Blackmore Vale, the architectural majesty of Wells, and much else that awaits the traveller in Dorset and Somerset.

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Table of contents

Beautiful Britain Wessex

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

WESSEX

CHAPTER I WAREHAM—BERE REGIS—THE HEATHS

CHAPTER II CORFE CASTLE—SWANAGE

CHAPTER III WOOLBRIDGE HOUSE—LULWORTH COVE—OWERMOIGNE—WEYMOUTH

CHAPTER IV “UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE”—DORCHESTER—MAIDEN CASTLE—BRIDPORT—WEST BAY

CHAPTER V CERNE ABBAS—THE VALE OF BLACKMORE—SHERBORNE—SHAFTESBURY

CHAPTER VI YATTON—CHEDDAR CHEESE AND CHEDDAR CLIFFS—WELLS—GLASTONBURY—THE ISLE OF ATHELNEY—DUNSTER

CHAPTER VII NORTON ST. PHILIP—BATH—CORSHAM—CASTLE COMBE

INDEX

Transcriber’s Notes

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Beautiful Britain Wessex

Beautiful BritainWessex

ByCharles G Harper

London Adam & CharlesBlack Soho Square W 1911

PREFACE

This is a modest, gossipy and allusive sketch of a delightful part of England, designed rather to arouse the interest and the curiosity of those not already acquainted with what I will call the “Middle West” than to fully satisfy it. If in this connection you choose to regard the author of these pages as a commercial traveller in the interest of Wessex, displaying samples of the picturesque wares the West of England can offer the tourist, it will entirely fit the humour in which they were penned. To aid the medium of words is added a feast of colour in the accompanying selected views, which show the lovely golden russet interior of Sherborne Abbey, the misty rich blue haze of Blackmore Vale, the architectural majesty of Wells, and much else that awaits the traveller in Dorset and Somerset.

C. G. H.